Ensemble variable selection using genetic algorithm

Integrating Instance Selection and Bagging Ensemble using a Genetic Algorithm

Ensemble classification combines individually trained classifiers to obtain more accurate predictions than individual classifiers alone. Ensemble techniques are very useful for improving the generalizability of the classifier. Bagging is the method used most commonly for constructing ensemble classifiers. In bagging, different training data subsets are drawn randomly with replacement from the o...

A Genetic Algorithm to Ensemble Feature Selection

Variable Selection for Financial Distress Classification Using a Genetic Algorithm

This paper is concerned with the use of a genetic algorithm to select financial ratios for corporate distress classification models. For this purpose, the fitness value associated to a set of ratios is made to reflect the requirements of maximizing the amount of information available for the model and minimizing the collinearity between the model inputs. A case study involving 60 failed and con...

Optimisation of Ensemble Classifiers using Genetic Algorithm

Ensemble learning is a well established machine learning approach that utilises a number of classifiers to aggregate the decision about determining the class label. In its basic form this aggregation is achieved via majority voting. A generic approach, termed EV-Ensemble, for evolving a new ensemble from an existing one is proposed in this paper. This approach is applied to the high performance...

An Ensemble of Classifiers with Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Selection

Different data classification algorithms have been developed and applied in various areas to analyze and extract valuable information and patterns from large datasets with noise and missing values. However, none of them could consistently perform well over all datasets. To this end, ensemble methods have been suggested as the promising measures. This paper proposes a novel hybrid algorithm, whi...